Despite evidence that weathering plays a role in forming intertidal, estuarine, and fluvial rock platforms, many publications uncritically refer to “wave-cut” or “stream-cut” rock platforms. The alternative explanations of chemical weathering and physical water erosion of rock platforms have been debated since 1839. Our new approach to this long-standing problem introduces data from fluvial as ...

CHRISTOPHER MCGANN, M.D.,* HENRY TAZELAAR, SANG ROCK CHO, YOUSSEF AL-SAGHIR, FREDRIC SHEAN, WILLIAM YOUNG, and HARTZELL SCHAFF Division of Cardiology, Health Sciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Department of Int...

With the continuous construction of large-scale geotechnical engineering, more and attention has been paid to long-term stability rock mass especially problem creep under influence water. Combined with author’s previous research on triaxial characteristics sandstone water-rock interaction, a nonlinear constitutive model was established capture degradation behavior due cyclic wetting drying rese...

The use of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash in road construction may possess a risk to the environment due to the release of e.g. salt and heavy metals. In this study, two years of leachate data from a test road built of MSWI bottom ash and crushed rock in northern Sweden were evaluated. It was found that Cu, Cr, Al, Na, and Clwere leached in higher amounts from the bottom a...

Background: The short-time creep behavior for a series of biodegradable nanocomposites which is used as implantable device into body is a crucial factor. In the current paper, we aimed to study the effect of bioactive glass nanoparticles (BGn) on creep and creep-recovery behaviors of PLA/PCL blends at different given load and different applied temperatures. Method: A series of biodegradab...

We investigated pressure-dependent changes in the optical properties of PbS nanocrystal quantum dots (NQD) by combining X-ray scattering and optical absorption spectroscopy in a diamond anvil cell. We discovered that the excitonic absorption peak vanishes as the NQD crystal structure reversibly undergoes the pressure-induced phase transition from rock-salt to orthorhombic structure. In the rock...